Thoughts: Spotted the last two reps on the concentration curls on my left arm. Good weight to start. I think if I do the planking with a stop watch, I won't be so tempted to quit before I can really get to failure. I'll give that a go.

Overall, felt good to get back to the gym after four days off. Goofy gym hours the next couple of weeks, so some workouts will be at home. Liked this workout...

Thoughts: "Just because I can do six reps of a movement on the final set of four sets with my last routine, does not mean I can do eight on the final set of this routine." I know this, but it just needed to be stated. ha...

Thoughts: Did this at home this morning as the gym is closed today. Plus, I have to make a quick stop at Best Buy this morning... should be fun... quick workout... not too sure I got the best of it, but at least I did something. I'll likely feel the legs tomorrow though, due to the sissy squats.

Age: 38 year old maleWeight: 196lbsHeight: 5'11" or soGoals: I'm doing this to be healthy. I'm not doing this to win any competitions, just be more fit than I have been in the past.Training Since: February 2003. Since then I've seen my weight drop from about 220lbs to 182 and now back up to about 196. Along that way some muscle and fat lost and mostly muscle gained back.Bests: Deadlift is at about 300lb 1RM. As for BB Bench Press, not sure what my 1RM is, but doing about 155lbs for eight reps on my final set.Other: Since starting this fitness thing, I've taken a fitness leadership course and am looking at doing some training. I love weight training and try to bestow the virtues of it on those who will listen!

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Thoughts: Not too sure about the DB Good Mornings... a bit awkward. Rested the DBs on my traps... unless there is a less awkward way of doing these with DBs I may never do them again.

The Swiss Ball Preacher Curls were interesting... once I got the balance figured out, I was okay. Until then, well, let's say I'm glad I did this at home. It limited the amount of laughter I would have gotten at the gym.

Thoughts: Didn't really get that "I can do no more" feeling... overall... after each set I think I did, but I wasn't exhausted when I was done today... need to feel that some more... did feel the burn in the triceps though... and the biceps were a little fried probably because I did the bis yesterday.

Thoughts: I think I got the "feeling" back. I was pretty beat following this today. I love leg day. That is the most weight I've pushed on the Leg Press. Mind you, it's on less set, so not sure I could have done the same on a fourth set. Tried Front Squats on the Smith Machine. Couldn't figure them out and they felt awful weird, so changed to regular Smith Squats.

I have never done a routine like I'm doing now, four days on, one day off, working body parts twice a week. I'm feeling the feeling.

Today was the one day off. I decided I needed to do some cardio, this was after some long thought on the subject.

I've been up since 3:00am, and got home around 1:30 this afternoon. I was exhausted. Not used to doing this shift anymore. All morning I was thinking when I get home I'll do some cardio. But, once I got home, I tanked. I was getting crabby and wanted to sleep. Tried, but the phone kept ringing and my son decided to go get some friends and bring them home. Then my wife called from our neighbours place and she was gonna go shopping. So much for the snooze. I vented and hit the bed for about 15 minutes. Guess that's all I needed.

Popped in my Keith Urban DVD and did standard cardio on the mini-trampoline for about 30 minutes.

I should sleep tonight.

Thoughts: I feel much better now, but I assume I'll be very groggy about 8:00pm or so. Back and bis tomorrow. Bring it.

* I use a towel around the bar as I don't have a handle at home. I also do not include the bar weight on these. I was placing the towel between the first and second weight, but figured based on leverage I wasn't really lifting the first weight, so I readjusted and moved the towel in front of all the weights on the last set. I think it made a bit of difference.

I felt today was a good workout and I had a better attitude going in today. On the 21's I was gonna go with just 35 pounds on the last set, but thought, why bother.. let's see what I can do with 40 pounds. Same sorta attitude on the Hammer curls. I was gonna do the last set with just 15 pounds, but had the same thought.

The gym is closed today, so this was done at home and offered some challenges.

First off, one of my goals for the next 365.25 days is to lower the ol' body fat... I would like to drop it to about 12% and am giving myself the next year. I use www.mybodycomp.com to measure my bf%. I assume it's not as accurate as other methods, but will keep a good idea of where I'm going.

The reason I'm looking at a year to get to 12% is because I have horrible will-power... sometimes... diet can be a real challenge for me. And I have to up my cardio some too... lucky if I do one session a week.

Thoughts: *I am almost convinced my bar at home weighs more than I think... I've weighed it numerous times and it still says it's about 15 pounds. Whatever. The other challenge is my bench isn't as stable as the ones in the gym... a little wobbley, so I suppose some core work thrown in there too... thus the challenge with not reaching my goal of eight reps on the final set. Good excuse, right?

Overall, I felt this was a good workout... the tricep dips I found a good challenge as I was dipping deeper than I usually do at the gym.

Thoughts: Starting to think more why not? during my workouts, as in 'why not try the weight you think you might be able to lift?' Experiment a bit more with some weight and see. I now know I should have maybe added another ten pounds to the SLDLs.

Worked up a heck of a sweat today! Tomorrow the gym will be open and it's shoulder day!